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- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 20th January 1784.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 22. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Depicts a horizontal Scotsman wrapped in a letter which is floating in the air under a signpost inscribed "To London." The letter bears a round stamp "Free" and is addressed "To the Majority, St. Stephen's Westmr. Free Duke or no Duke". A reference to allegations that the Duke of Portland bribed Scottish M.P.s with money for travel
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Probably a later state, with added scribbles in the background and with the presence of significant plate wear that makes printmaker's initials in lower left corner illegible. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.5108., and Mounted on page 34.
- Publisher:
- Published as the act directs by Jas. Bretherton, New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809.
- Subject (Topic):
- Legislators, National characteristics, Scottish, Corruption, and Signs (Notices)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A posthaste conveyance for Scotch members [graphic]